2001 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Winner
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W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century 1919-1963
David Levering Lewis
The second part of a biography of the African American author and scholar chronicles the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance, Du Bois’s battle for equality and justice for African Americans, and his self-exile in Ghana….
2001 Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography Shortlist
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Frederick Douglass
William S. McFeely
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Genet: A Biography
Edmund White
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